Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Smores Meet Moon Pies!

People joke that Southerners sit around their trailers barefoot, sippin' on RC Colas and munchin' Moon Pies. And while I did spend my first few years in a trailer, I always wore shoes and wasn't a fan of RC Cola. I did, however, love chocolate Moon Pies in my pre-vegan days ... especially heated in the microwave for a few seconds.

I also loved smores. Something about a gooey campfire-roasted marshmallow smeared between a crunchy graham cracker and a melty chunk of Hershey's chocolate still makes my mouth water. So imagine my excitement when I heard about Sweet & Sara's vegan smore pies!

They're like a cross between a smore (with the fluffy vegan marshmallow layer, the chocolate shell, and the graham cookie), but they look and taste a lot like classic Moon Pies.

My dad threw one in my recent Vegan Essentials order, and though I intended to eat only half at a time (lest I get fat!), I couldn't stop at half. Microwaved for 15 seconds (would be less in a normal microwave ... mine sucks), the chocolate layer got just melty enough to require a fork and the marshmallow layer went all soft and gooey. How could I not eat it all in one setting?

25 comments:

Oh wow, that looks sooo good. I need to buy some online- not just for myself, but I can totally see myself instantly converting people into vegans with one of those. Who says we only eat raw carrots and salad?!?

These have got to be my favorite store-bought vegan treat.. and yes, microwaved for 15 seconds makes them so so yum. Have you tried the peanut butter flavor? I have a hard time picking a fave between the two.Oh, and I never drank RC cola as a kid either... here in Texas, it was Dr Pepper...

Now I am all wistful for my childhood. My Mom used to get moon pies all the time for us. Wah....Mommy - I wanna moon pie! Oh, wait, she's right here. And I am almost 40 so I can get my own moon pies! Whew!

Yum. that sounds so good. Yes, growing up in the South before being a vegan, moon pies were awesome. I am like you, I never liked RC cola. And have't all of us Southern kids lived in a trailer at least once in our lifetime. :)

Unless I'm missing something, I think Moon Pies ARE vegan,although not too healthy. As the husband of a new vegan several years ago, I automatically read the ingredients of everything I looked at in the grocery store. One day at the local convenience store I noticed that a chocolate moon pie had no animal products. Let me know if I missed something, but my wife now enjoys them from time to time - and i'm sure they a lot cheaper than what you can get at VE.

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I'm a 9-year vegan, 19-year vegetarian from the Mid-South, not too far from the muddy banks of the Mississippi River. And that means cornbread, butter beans, and collard greens.
These days, I live in Memphis. Check out my cookbook — Cookin' Crunk. It's filled with yummilicious veganized soul food and country classics.